Re: WDSC changing to RDi

Walden H. Leverich wrote:

OK, thanks for the clarification, it was the compilers I was thinking
about, my mistake.

Now, you say, "If you were on the fence about ILE, this will give you an
opportunity to make up your mind." And believe me, I _wish_ everyone had
moved to ILE by now, but the reality is, many are still "on the fence"
and pushing management to let them do stuff in ILE.
I agree, this new pricing will help companies make up their mind,
unfortunately, it will help them make up their mind to stay w/OPM! And
as a consultant add in the complexity that you will now walk into shops
and not be able to use all the tools in your bag of tricks. If it's an
OPM shop, no ILE tricks, and if it's an ILE shop, no OPM tricks.

Unfortunately, you miss the point again. Unless this is a shop that has only ONE license for the compiler, then they can have a mix. You can have OPM and ILE licenses in the same shop. And remember, the compiler licenses are by user as well. So, with a little creativity, you can probably reduce your requirements quite a bit.

And now I'm out of this. Some of you are really just fixin' for a fight, and tossing straw men into the mix. I mean, let's be honest here: if you ever walk into an ILE shop and want to introduce "OPM tricks" you need to find a new line of work.

And rather than complain, you might want to get on the horn with IBM and make sure a couple of things actually do happen: low cost (preferably zero-cost) transfer from ADTS to RDi, concurrent user pricing rather than named user pricing, and include one copy of all tools with every license of 5761WDS.

If all those things came to pass, almost nobody could complain except for the people running 20 developers on a P10. You'd have support for everything, including legacy, and you'd also be able to tailor your expenses based on your program model.

Joe